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Tips for designing distributed systems

CircleCI

While SOA architecture gave us the added benefit of business value and reusable, loosely-coupled services, they still relied on monolithic systems with limited scaling. Microservice architecture. Distributed systems best practices. In a microservice, the constituting services are out-of-process components.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Linux is six years old. In Würzburg, Germany, Eric Raymond presents an essay called "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" [1] at the Linux Kongress. It involves a lot of automation and is usually accompanied by a change in system architecture, organizational structure, and incentives (more on that later). Amazon is three.